The Cio 1935 1955

Author : Robert H. Zieger
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780807866443

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The CIO, 1935-1955 by Robert H. Zieger Pdf

The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) encompassed the largest sustained surge of worker organization in American history. Robert Zieger charts the rise of this industrial union movement, from the founding of the CIO by John L. Lewis in 1935 to its merger under Walter Reuther with the American Federation of Labor in 1955. Exploring themes of race and gender, Zieger combines the institutional history of the CIO with vivid depictions of working-class life in this critical period. Zieger details the ideological conflicts that racked the CIO even as its leaders strove to establish a labor presence at the heart of the U.S. economic system. Stressing the efforts of industrial unionists such as Sidney Hillman and Philip Murray to forge potent instruments of political action, he assesses the CIO's vital role in shaping the postwar political and international order. Zieger's analysis also contributes to current debates over labor law reform, the collective bargaining system, and the role of organized labor in a changing economy.

Author : Walter Galenson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The CIO Challenge to the AFL by Walter Galenson Pdf

The period immediately preceding World War II was probably the most critical in the history of the American labor movement. Prior to 1936, the trade unions were weak, but by 1941 a fundamental change in power relationships enabled them to penetrate the strongholds of American industry--steel and automobiles. The CIO Challenge to the AFL is a three-part study. It discusses the split in the American Federation of Labor and the formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations; presents eighteen specific industry or union case studies, each an independent essay in economic history; and, finally, analyzes various general aspects of the labor movement.

Author : Robert H. Zieger,Timothy J. Minchin,Gilbert J. Gall
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421413440

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American Workers, American Unions by Robert H. Zieger,Timothy J. Minchin,Gilbert J. Gall Pdf

An update to the classic history of labor and unions for a post-9/11 world. Highly acclaimed and widely read since its first publication in 1986, American Workers, American Unions provides a concise and compelling history of American workers and their unions in the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first. Taking into account recent important work on the 1970s and the Reagan revolution, the fourth edition newly considers the stagflation issue, the rise of globalization and big box retailing, the failure of Congress to pass legislation supporting the right of public employees to collective bargaining, the defeat in Congress of legislation to revise the National Labor Relations Act, the emasculation of the Humphrey-Hawkins Act, and the changing dynamics of blue-collar politics. In addition to important new information on the 1970s and 1980s, the fourth edition contains a completely new final chapter. Largely written by Timothy J. Minchin, this chapter provides a rare survey of American workers and their unions between 9/11 and the 2012 presidential election. Gilbert J. Gall presents new information on government workers and their recent battles to defend workplace rights.

Author : Zaragosa Vargas
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400849284

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Labor Rights Are Civil Rights by Zaragosa Vargas Pdf

In 1937, Mexican workers were among the strikers and supporters beaten, arrested, and murdered by Chicago policemen in the now infamous Republic Steel Mill Strike. Using this event as a springboard, Zaragosa Vargas embarks on the first full-scale history of the Mexican-American labor movement in twentieth-century America. Absorbing and meticulously researched, Labor Rights Are Civil Rightspaints a multifaceted portrait of the complexities and contours of the Mexican American struggle for equality from the 1930s to the postwar era. Drawing on extensive archival research, Vargas focuses on the large Mexican American communities in Texas, Colorado, and California. As he explains, the Great Depression heightened the struggles of Spanish speaking blue-collar workers, and employers began to define citizenship to exclude Mexicans from political rights and erect barriers to resistance. Mexican Americans faced hostility and repatriation. The mounting strife resulted in strikes by Mexican fruit and vegetable farmers. This collective action, combined with involvement in the Communist party, led Mexican workers to unionize. Vargas carefully illustrates how union mobilization in agriculture, tobacco, garment, and other industries became an important vehicle for achieving Mexican American labor and civil rights. He details how interracial unionism proved successful in cross-border alliances, in fighting discriminatory hiring practices, in building local unions, in mobilizing against fascism and in fighting brutal racism. No longer willing to accept their inferior status, a rising Mexican American grassroots movement would utilize direct action to achieve equality.

Author : Varshini Prakash,Guido Girgenti
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781982142438

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Winning the Green New Deal by Varshini Prakash,Guido Girgenti Pdf

An urgent and definitive collection of essays from leaders and experts championing the Green New Deal—and a detailed playbook for how we can win it—including contributions by leading activists and progressive writers like Varshini Prakash, Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Bill McKibben, Rev William Barber II, and more. In October 2018, scientists warned that we have less than 12 years left to transform our economy away from fossil fuels, or face catastrophic climate change. At that moment, there was no plan in the US to decarbonize our economy that fast. Less than two years later, every major Democratic presidential candidate has embraced the vision of the Green New Deal—a rapid, vast transformation of our economy to avert climate catastrophe while securing economic and racial justice for all. What happened? A new generation of leaders confronted the political establishment in Washington DC with a simple message: the climate crisis is here, and the Green New Deal is our last, best hope for a livable future. Now comes the hard part: turning that vision into the law of the land. In Winning a Green New Deal, leading youth activists, journalists, and policymakers explain why we need a transformative agenda to avert climate catastrophe, and how our movement can organize to win. Featuring essays by Varshini Prakash, cofounder of Sunrise Movement; Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Green New Deal policy architect; Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize–winning economist; Bill McKibben, internationally renowned environmentalist; Mary Kay Henry, the President of the Service Employees International Union, and others we’ll learn why the climate crisis cannot be solved unless we also confront inequality and racism, how movements can redefine what’s politically possible and overcome the opposition of fossil fuel billionaires, and how a Green New Deal will build a just and thriving economy for all of us. For anyone looking to understand the movement for a Green New Deal, and join the fight for a livable future, there is no resource as clear and practical as Winning the Green New Deal.

Author : Daniel J. Leab,Philip Parker Mason
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Archival resources
ISBN : 0814323898

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Labor History Archives in the United States by Daniel J. Leab,Philip Parker Mason Pdf

"Introduction. 9. . Labor Archives and Collections in the United States. 12. . Labor Holdings at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College. 18. . Labor Material in the Collections of the Museum of American Textile History. 27. . Labor History Sources at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. 33. . The Connecticut Labor Archives. 41. . Sources for Business and Labor History in the Bridgeport Public Library. 46. . Labor History Resources at New York University. 50. 1.). The Tamiment Institute/ Ben Josephson Library. . 2.). The Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. . . Labor Archives in the University at Albany, State University of New York. 61. . Sources on Labor History in the Martin P. Catherwood Library. 67. . Sources on Labor History at the Rockefeller Archive Center. 75. . Labor History Resources at the Rutgers University Libraries. 83. . Labor Collections at the Urban Archives Center, Temple University Libraries. 87. . Labor Archives at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. 93. . Historical Collections and Labor Archives, Penn State University. 97. . The UE/Labor Archives, University of Pittsburgh. 102. . Labor History Sources in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. 105. . Labor History Sources in the National Archives. 114. . Labor and Social History Records at the Catholic University of America Nelson Lichtenstein. 121. . The Joseph A. Beirne Memorial Archives. 125. . Labor Union History and Archives: The University of Maryland at College Park Libraries. 129. . The George Meany Memorial Archives. 133. . West Virginia Labor Sources at the West Virginia and Regional History Collection. 140. . The Southern Labor Archives. 146. . Labor History Resources at the Ohio Historical Society. 155. . The Debs Collection at Indiana State University. 161. . The Archives of Labor History and Urban Affairs, Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University. 167. . The Labadie Collection in the University of Michigan Library. 177. . Labor History Manuscripts in the Chicago Historical Society. 185. . The Ozarks Labor Union Archives at Southwest Missouri State University. 190. . Labor History Resources in the University of Iowa Libraries, the State Historical Society of Iowa/Iowa City, and the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library. 195. . Sources for the Study of the Labor Movement at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. 203. . The Immigration History Research Center as a Source for Labor History Research. 212. . Labor Collections in the Western Historical Collections, at the University of Colorado, Boulder. 219. . Labor Resources at the Nevada State Library and Archives. 224. . The Texas Labor Archives. 229. . Sources on Labor History at the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research. 235. . The Urban Archives Center at California State University, Northridge. 240. . The Labor Archives and Research Center at San Francisco State University. 248. . Index. 257.

Author : Timothy J. Minchin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798890853950

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Labor Under Fire by Timothy J. Minchin Pdf

Author : Michael Dennis
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781421410173

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Blood on Steel by Michael Dennis Pdf

A pivotal moment in the history of the movement for working-class democracy, the “Memorial Day Massacre” vividly captured the conflicting ideals of workers’ rights and the sanctity of private property. On Memorial Day 1937, thousands of steelworkers, middle-class supporters, and working-class activists gathered at Sam's Place on the Southeast Side of Chicago to protest Republic Steel’s virulent opposition to union recognition and collective bargaining. By the end of the day, ten marchers had been mortally wounded and more than one hundred badly injured, victims of a terrifying police riot. Sam's Place, the headquarters for the steelworkers, was transformed into a bloody and frantic triage unit for treating heads split open by police batons, flesh torn by bullets, and limbs mangled badly enough to require amputation. While no one doubts the importance of the Memorial Day Massacre, Michael Dennis identifies it as a focal point in the larger effort to revitalize American equality during the New Deal. In Blood on Steel, Dennis shows how the incident—captured on film by Paramount newsreels—validated the claims of labor activists and catalyzed public opinion in their favor. In the aftermath of the massacre, Senate hearings laid bare patterns of anti-union aggression among management, ranging from blacklists to harassment and vigilante violence. Companies were determined to subvert the right to form a union, which Congress had finally recognized in 1935. Only in the following year would Congress pass the Fair Labor Standards Act, which established a minimum wage and a maximum work week, outlawed child labor, and regulated hazardous work. Like the Wagner Act that protected collective bargaining, this law aimed to protect workers who had suffered the worst of what the Great Depression had inflicted. Dennis‘s wide-angle perspective reveals the Memorial Day Massacre as not simply another bloody incident in the long story of labor-management tension in American history but as an illustration of the broad-based movement for social democracy which developed in the New Deal era.

Author : Clayton Sinyai
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501729911

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Schools of Democracy by Clayton Sinyai Pdf

In this new political history of the labor movement, Clayton Sinyai examines the relationship between labor activism and the American democratic tradition. Sinyai shows how America's working people and union leaders debated the first questions of democratic theory—and in the process educated themselves about the rights and responsibilities of democratic citizenship. In tracing the course of the American labor movement from the founding of the Knights of Labor in the 1870s to the 1968 presidential election and its aftermath, Sinyai explores the political dimensions of collective bargaining, the structures of unions and businesses, and labor's relationships with political parties and other social movements. Schools of Democracy analyzes how labor activists wrestled with fundamental aspects of political philosophy and the development of American democracy, including majority rule versus individual liberty, the rule of law, and the qualifications required of citizens of a democracy. Offering a balanced assessment of mainstream leaders of American labor, from Samuel Gompers to George Meany, and their radical critics, including the Socialists and the Industrial Workers of the World, Sinyai provides an unusual and refreshing perspective on American labor history.

Author : David L. Swartz,Vera L. Zolberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781402025891

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After Bourdieu by David L. Swartz,Vera L. Zolberg Pdf

critical evaluations of his work, notably papers by Rodney Benson, 4 Rogers Brubaker, Nick Crossley, and John Myles. Indeed, it is the 1985 article by Rogers Brubaker that can truly be said to have served as one of the best introductions to Bourdieu’s thought for the American social scienti?c public. It is for this reason that we include it in the present collection. Intellectual origins & orientations We begin by providing an overview of Bourdieu’s life as a scholar and a public intellectual. The numerous obituaries and memorial tributes that have appeared following Bourdieu’s untimely death have revealed something of his life and career, but few have stressed the intersection of his social origins, career trajectory, and public intellectual life with the changing political and social context of France. This is precisely what David Swartz’s “In memoriam” attempts to accomplish. In it he emphasizes the coincidence of Bourdieu’s young and later adulthood with the period of decolonization, the May 1968 French university crisis, the opening up of France to privatization of many domains previously entrusted to the state (l’état providence), and, most threatening to post-World War II reforms, the emergence of globalization as the hegemonic structure of the 21st century. An orienting theme throughout Bourdieu’s work warns against the partial and fractured views of social reality generated by the fundamental subject/object dichotomy that has plagued social science from its very beginning.

Author : Daniel Leab,Kenneth J. Bindas,Alan Harris Stein,Justin Corfield,Steven L. Danver
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781598841558

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The Great Depression and the New Deal [2 volumes] by Daniel Leab,Kenneth J. Bindas,Alan Harris Stein,Justin Corfield,Steven L. Danver Pdf

A comprehensive encyclopedia of the 1930s in the United States, showing how the Depression affected every aspect of American life. In two volumes, The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Thematic Encyclopedia captures the full scope of a defining era of American history. Like no other available reference, it offers a comprehensive portrait of the nation from the Crash of 1929 to the onset of World War II, exploring the impact of the Depression and the New Deal on all aspects of American life. The book features hundreds of alphabetically organized entries in sections focusing on economics, politics, social ramifications, the arts, and ethnic issues. With an extraordinary range of primary sources integrated throughout , The Great Depression and the New Deal is the new cornerstone resource on a historic moment that is casting a shadow on our own unsettled times.

Author : Erik S. Gellman
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807835319

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Death Blow to Jim Crow by Erik S. Gellman Pdf

Death Blow to Jim Crow

Author : Paul S. Boyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199771103

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The Oxford Companion to United States History by Paul S. Boyer Pdf

Here is a volume that is as big and as varied as the nation it portrays. With over 1,400 entries written by some 900 historians and other scholars, it illuminates not only America's political, diplomatic, and military history, but also social, cultural, and intellectual trends; science, technology, and medicine; the arts; and religion. Here are the familiar political heroes, from George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, to Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. But here, too, are scientists, writers, radicals, sports figures, and religious leaders, with incisive portraits of such varied individuals as Thomas Edison and Eli Whitney, Babe Ruth and Muhammed Ali, Black Elk and Crazy Horse, Margaret Fuller, Emma Goldman, and Marian Anderson, even Al Capone and Jesse James. The Companion illuminates events that have shaped the nation (the Great Awakening, Bunker Hill, Wounded Knee, the Vietnam War); major Supreme Court decisions (Marbury v. Madison, Roe v. Wade); landmark legislation (the Fugitive Slave Law, the Pure Food and Drug Act); social movements (Suffrage, Civil Rights); influential books (The Jungle, Uncle Tom's Cabin); ideologies (conservatism, liberalism, Social Darwinism); even natural disasters and iconic sites (the Chicago Fire, the Johnstown Flood, Niagara Falls, the Lincoln Memorial). Here too is the nation's social and cultural history, from Films, Football, and the 4-H Club, to Immigration, Courtship and Dating, Marriage and Divorce, and Death and Dying. Extensive multi-part entries cover such key topics as the Civil War, Indian History and Culture, Slavery, and the Federal Government. A new volume for a new century, The Oxford Companion to United States History covers everything from Jamestown and the Puritans to the Human Genome Project and the Internet--from Columbus to Clinton. Written in clear, graceful prose for researchers, browsers, and general readers alike, this is the volume that addresses the totality of the American experience, its triumphs and heroes as well as its tragedies and darker moments.

Author : Grace Palladino
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501729300

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Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits by Grace Palladino Pdf

Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits follows the history of the Building and Construction Trades Department from the emergence of building trades councils in the age of the skyscraper; through treacherous fights over jurisdiction as new building materials and methods of work evolved; and through numerous Department campaigns to improve safety standards, work with contractors to promote unionized construction, and forge a sense of industrial unity among its fifteen (and at times nineteen) autonomous and highly diverse affiliates. Arranged chronologically, Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits is based on archival research in Department, AFL-CIO, and U.S. government records as well as numerous union journals, the local and national press, and interviews with former Department officers. Grace Palladino makes the history of the building trades come alive. By investigating the sources of conflict and unity within the Building and Construction Trades Department over time, and demonstrating how building trades unions dealt with problems and opportunities in the past, she provides a historical context for the current generation of workers and leaders as they devise new strategies to suit their current situation.

Author : M. Dennis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230114722

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The Memorial Day Massacre and the Movement for Industrial Democracy by M. Dennis Pdf

This book explores one of the most dramatic and scandalous events in the movement for American democratic reform. Dubbed the Memorial Day Massacre, it saw Chicago police shoot and kill ten demonstrators and beat more than one hundred others as they tried to form a mass picket line at the Republic Steel Plant in South Chicago.